While everyone experiences anxious thoughts and feelings and even engages in compulsive behaviors from time to time, not everyone has obsessive-compulsive disorder, otherwise known as OCD. If you suffer from OCD or believe you might, you understand the overwhelming distress that it causes.

You may find yourself experiencing:

Intrusive thoughts that feel out of line with who you’ve always considered yourself to be as a person.

Thoughts and feelings that are out of your control and, if it were up to you, you would never have to experience again.

Hours of your day consumed by ritualized behaviors or thought processes you feel compelled to complete in order to ensure a feared situation does not occur.

Spending much of your day feeling anxious, guilty, disgusted, or ashamed about the thoughts you have.

Your life is no longer what you may have once known it to be.

This is OCD. OCD is a mental health condition wherein the sufferer gets caught in a distressing cycle of obsessions and compulsions. It is anxiety-producing, time-consuming, and may be affecting your ability to function personally, professionally, or socially. The good news is that there is effective treatment available.
There is hope.

Our clinicians are OCD specialists, utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), a specific form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that is the gold standard treatment for OCD. There is a plethora of research supporting this treatment and its effectiveness for those with obsessive compulsive disorder. For optimal results, ERP is combined with mindfulness skills and cognitive therapy in order to break the cycle of endless compulsions. You can get your life back from this disorder. You can find freedom from the grips of OCD. You can live a valued and meaningful life again.

OCD often attaches itself to the things one cares about most, fears the most, and/or is the most relevant in the media or current state of the world. While some obsessional themes are more common or well-known than others, the content of obsessions can vary widely.

Common OCD themes seen in my practice include, but are not limited to:
Contamination OCD
Relationship OCD (ROCD)
Just Right OCD
Responsibility OCD
Perinatal/Postpartum OCD (PP OCD)
Harm OCD
Symmetry OCD
Pedophile-Themed OCD (POCD)
Existential OCD
Sexual Orientation-Themed OCD (HOCD)
Emotional Contamination OCD
Scrupulosity (Religious & Moral Themes)
Sensorimotor OCD
Real Event OCD
Meta-Anxiety (Obsessing about obsessing)